Teaching basic lab skillsfor research computing

Summarizing Our Instructors' Skills

We've been asking bootcamp participants to tell us about themselves for a while now,
so it seems only fair to share some information about our instructors.
First,
of the 82 instructors who responded to our survey two weeks ago,
how many are comfortable teaching which topic to novices,
to intermediates,
or not at all?

Not At All

Novices

Intermediates

Python

4

27

51

...NumPy/SciPy

16

34

32

...Packaging

44

20

18

...OOP

16

31

35

...Data Visualization

18

37

27

...Testing

16

40

26

R

50

18

14

...Data Visualization

54

13

15

...plyr

66

8

8

...Packaging

68

6

8

Unix Shell

1

23

58

Git/GitHub

4

32

46

Mercurial

57

13

12

Subversion

39

22

21

SQL

34

26

22

Regular Expressions

16

37

29

Make

32

27

23

Thanks to Jenny Bryan,
we have a ranked visualization of those responses:

Second,
who feels comfortable setting up on which platforms?
(The responses don't sum to 82 because many people selected several options.)

Linux

71

Mac OS X

61

Windows

42

Desktop VMs

33

Cloud VMs

21

And finally,
where are people from?

North America

60

Europe

13

Australia/New Zealand

6

Sub-Saharan Africa

1

East Asia

1

South America

1

We have information about instructors' research areas as well,
but it's hard to categorize.
Once we've recovered from running our biggest events ever,
we'll dig into it a little more and share what we find;
until then,
you can download the raw data
and tell us what correlations you can find.